Stock Manager

Great Bear; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 25 days

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Employee Wellness

Eye Care

Rewards program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Great Bear is seeking a proactive Stock Manager in Birmingham to lead end-to-end depot inventory, ensuring accuracy and timely order processing. You’ll drive stock reconciliation, partner with operations, and manage a busy team to sustain high service levels.

The role requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and experience with stock systems. A continuous improvement mindset and collaboration with transport and store teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in stock control and inventory accuracy.
• Strong organisational and data-entry skills.
• Knowledge of WMS/SAP and Excel helpful.
• HACCP and compliance understanding desirable.
• GCSEs or equivalent qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end stock management for depot inventory.
• Ensure accurate data entry and stock reconciliation.
• Coordinate with operations to process orders promptly.
• Maintain KPI reporting and stock availability data.
• Lead and develop the depot team to improve productivity.

Skills

Stock management

Organisational skills

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

GCSEs or equivalent

HACCP Foundation

Tools

WMS

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Inventory systems

Job description

As Stock Manager you will have full responsibility for ensuring that the depot equipment from end to end is diligently managed. This will be carried out in a dynamic and busy business unit, ensuring all stock management processes are fully adhered to.

Reporting to the Senior Manager you will need to have the ability to work autonomously as well as being a team player whilst ensuring that the values and business stock management expectations are fully adhered to.

You must have excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy team and actively support and progress their development promoting a continuous improvement ethos.

This role will suit a self-motivated professional who is process driven and has a keen eye for detail and is looking for a new challenge and can envisage business improvement opportunities and embrace a purposeful desire to work collaboratively within the depot team to achieve them.

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the quantitative, quality and status of our extensive Goresbrook depot inventory ensuring availability and snapshot accuracy of Stock on our inventory management system.
• You will be responsible for but not limited to:
• Ensuring all processes are implemented and adhered to, to ensure the quantity, quality, and status of Stock.
• Work closely with our operational team to support the prompt processing of orders
• Adopt an ownership approach to maintaining the accurate data entry onto inventory management system to promote transparency within the depot and wider business
• Ensure all out and inbound stock is processed correctly
• Ensure that all client stock management processes are followed ranging from day-to-day transactions to wider company stock control activities.
• Working with Senior Operations Manager to review and report on ongoing stock levels to ensure a proactive approach to maintaining depot stock levels.
• Drive the standards needed to ensure end to end stock management within the depot ensuring it meets the standards expected by the client.
• Managing stock count and stock reconciliation as appropriate (to ensure the timely and efficient resolution of all stock anomalies for all stock at all depots and storage companies.
• Rectifying problems and non -conformance to specification
• Participate in meetings to improve productivity, resolve customer service issues and managing daily workload
• Managing daily stock Reconciliation
• Site utilization management (full governance and responsibility for ensuring the site has sufficient space to operate and accommodate the days volumes
• Managing PI checks / Cycle counts and FIFO in pick face and reserves.
• Non-conformance management
• Ensuring staff are compliant with stock audit requirements.
• Forecasting, Planning and liaising with other departments making sure correct resources in place to match volumes.
• Develop good relationship with the warehouse, transport and store management to promote stock integrity
• Provide weekly report on stock availability and service performance levels.
• Monitoring stock performance and due diligence.
• Ensure all Customer Requirements are being met in relation to the safe storage, picking and despatching of stock as required
• Ensure that all Site Goods in and Out activities are effectively managed
• Managing the briefing process ensuring all staff are aware of their daily responsibility’s checks, stock control processes and daily requirements are correctly dealt with.
• Proactively manage the day-to-day requirements of the Customer
• Ensure all Customer Requirements in relation to Stock Control are met and maintained
• Build and develop a good working relationship with the customers’ representatives
• Monitor, develop and maintain any agreed site specific KPI’s required by the customer
• Have a working knowledge of the commercial implications of all contractual agreements that are in place with each customer
• Proactively manages performance within the team effectively, by conducting regular appraisals and objective setting.
• Develop efficient and effective administration processes to support the site in delivering key KPIs.
• Manage and control of stock levels and periodic reporting to senior management.
• Execute inventory control measures to ensure the company minimizes stock holdings and maximizes stock system and paperwork accuracy.
• Minimise overstocks and removal of obsolete and redundant products to minimise waste and reduce overall cost.
• Manage and maintain the company’s material and stocked product inventory including stock profiles and stock locations
• Compliance with stock audits requirements
• Train and develop team members, motivating team to ensure targets, deadlines and accuracy are clearly understood are being achieved.
• Providing and Managing the highest level of service to the customers through timely communication, liaison with the warehouse, scheduling deliveries and dealing with all queries generated
• Monthly Customer’s review on Health and Safety, Productivity, finance, and service level.

Qualifications

• ESLL Disciplinary training
• IT Literate including Microsoft word, excel and outlook.
• Working knowledge of key ESLL Systems (WMS / SAP etc).
• Working knowledge of WTD Legislation.
• Working knowledge of any specific site related legislation (EFSIS etc).
• HACCP Foundation
• Qualified understanding of the Operations Managers Key Responsibilities Matrix.
• Equivalent of 5 GCSE’s Grade C or above.

Additional Information

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 Days + 8 Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirements so we offer agreat contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
• Life Assurance - x4 your annual salary
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programmewe offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!